Let's teach geometry

  1. María Cañadas 1
  2. Marta Molina 2
  3. Sandra Gallardo
  4. Manuel Martínez-Santaolalla
  5. María Peñas
  1. 1 Universidad de Granada
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    Universidad de Granada

    Granada, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04njjy449

  2. 2 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Journal:
Mathematics teaching

ISSN: 0025-5785

Year of publication: 2010

Pages: 32-37

Type: Article

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Abstract

In this work we present an activity for High School students in which various mathematical concepts of plane and spatial geometry are involved. The final objective of the proposed tasks is constructing a particular polyhedron, the cube, by using a modality of origami called modular origami.

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